Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 18:12 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/19/20 2:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 11:31 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 5/19/20 2:06 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > > > You aren't doin' it right. Hold down Shift and *click* (not scroll) in

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-19 Thread berend
On Tue, 19 May, 2020 at 18:12, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/19/20 2:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 11:31 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/19/20 2:06 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: You aren't doin' it right. Hold down Shift and *click* (not scroll) in the scroll bar anywher

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/19/20 2:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 11:31 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/19/20 2:06 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: You aren't doin' it right. Hold down Shift and *click* (not scroll) in the scroll bar anywhere above or below the slider. It jumps instantly to th

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 11:31 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/19/20 2:06 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > You aren't doin' it right. Hold down Shift and *click* (not scroll) in > > the scroll bar anywhere above or below the slider. It jumps instantly > > to that relative position. > > > It's

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/19/20 2:06 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: You aren't doin' it right. Hold down Shift and *click* (not scroll) in the scroll bar anywhere above or below the slider. It jumps instantly to that relative position. It's the opposite for me. Clicking without shift jumps to the position, with s

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 16:04 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 21:59 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > that doesn't do what the OP was looking for which was apparently to > > jump to the beginning or end. I don't remember it ever working like > > that though. > > Me, neither. You are

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 20:22 -0500, Mike Flannigan wrote: > Hold down Shift while scrolling. Yes! This is exactly what I want, thanks. poc ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedorapro

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-18 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 21:59 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > that doesn't do what the OP was looking for which was apparently to > jump to the beginning or end. I don't remember it ever working like > that though. Me, neither. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.8.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 12 16:57

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/18/20 6:22 PM, Mike Flannigan wrote: Hold down Shift while scrolling. What are you suggesting that does? For me, shift with the scroll wheel blocks scrolling. Shift-clicking on the scrollbar makes it scroll by a page instead of jumping to that position. But that doesn't do what the O

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-18 Thread Mike Flannigan
Hold down Shift while scrolling. On 5/16/20 5:58 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: if you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it would jump instantly to the top or bottom of the page. Thi

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Saturday, May 16, 2020 3:42:42 AM MST Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: if > you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it would > jump instantly to the top or bottom of the page. This seems to have > gone, and c

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/16/2020 11:27 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: As I'm right-handed, this is pretty awkward. Never mind. I'm right handed and do it all the time. Of course, I've always used both hands when convenient, so it's not a problem for me. ___ users mai

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 11:17 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/16/2020 10:04 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > That works, but it means looking away from the screen to find them, and > > moving your hand away from the mouse. > > Then use both hands. One for the mouse, one for the keypad. HTH, HAND.

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/16/2020 10:04 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: That works, but it means looking away from the screen to find them, and moving your hand away from the mouse. Then use both hands. One for the mouse, one for the keypad. HTH, HAND. ___ users mailing

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 11:00 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > I am glad they fixed that "bug". The absolute setting it did have was > > generally useless on larger web pages, and on smaller web pages as Tim > > says, it was impossible to figure out where you wanted to be. I am > > not entirely sure

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 11:58 +0100, ja wrote: > On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 11:42 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: if > > you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it would > > jump instantly to the top or botto

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 18:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-05-16 18:42, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: if > > you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it would > > jump instantly to the top or bottom of t

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Roger Heflin
I am glad they fixed that "bug". The absolute setting it did have was generally useless on larger web pages, and on smaller web pages as Tim says, it was impossible to figure out where you wanted to be. I am not entirely sure who thought it was a good idea, or how they tested it given it was unus

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 11:42 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: > if you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it > would jump instantly to the top or bottom of the page. This seems to > have gone, and clickin

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread ja
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 11:42 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: if > you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it would > jump instantly to the top or bottom of the page. This seems to have > gone, and clickin

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-05-16 18:42, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: if > you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it would > jump instantly to the top or bottom of the page. This seems to have > gone, and clicking just scrolls

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-23 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 21Jul2017 09:28, Tom H wrote: >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-POSIX-Mode.html > > Many thanks! - Cameron Simpson You're welcome. Sorry for the late reply but I wanted to find the following. They were in

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 21Jul2017 09:28, Tom H wrote: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-POSIX-Mode.html Many thanks! - Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedorap

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 20Jul2017 13:41, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 07/20/2017 05:31 AM, George N. White III wrote: >>> >>> Rigid adherence to a standard is often overkill. Bashisms have been >>> a practical problem for systems that use dash for /bin/sh. >> >> My u

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-21 Thread George N. White III
On 20 July 2017 at 18:44, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/20/2017 02:30 PM, George N. White III wrote: > >> On 20 July 2017 at 17:41, Joe Zeff mailto:j...@zeff.us>> >> wrote: >> >> On 07/20/2017 05:31 AM, George N. White III wrote: >> >> >> Rigid adherence to a standard is often overkill. Ba

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 20Jul2017 13:41, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/20/2017 05:31 AM, George N. White III wrote: Rigid adherence to a standard is often overkill. Bashisms have been a practical problem for systems that use dash for /bin/sh. My understanding is that when bash is invoked as sh, it acts exactly as sh i

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 20Jul2017 06:29, robert p. j. day wrote: (admittedly not an actual "fedora" topic but i'm sure i'll get some good advice here.) Hah. You will at least get lots of advice. i'm currently perusing someone else's collection of shell scripts, and looking to add more, and want to clarify once

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/20/2017 02:30 PM, George N. White III wrote: On 20 July 2017 at 17:41, Joe Zeff mailto:j...@zeff.us>> wrote: On 07/20/2017 05:31 AM, George N. White III wrote: Rigid adherence to a standard is often overkill. Bashisms have been a practical problem for systems

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-20 Thread George N. White III
On 20 July 2017 at 17:41, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/20/2017 05:31 AM, George N. White III wrote: > >> >> Rigid adherence to a standard is often overkill. Bashisms have been a >> practical problem for systems that use dash for /bin/sh. >> > > My understanding is that when bash is invoked as sh, it

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/20/2017 05:31 AM, George N. White III wrote: Rigid adherence to a standard is often overkill. Bashisms have been a practical problem for systems that use dash for /bin/sh. My understanding is that when bash is invoked as sh, it acts exactly as sh itself would, so that only those builti

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-20 Thread George N. White III
On 20 July 2017 at 07:29, wrote: > (admittedly not an actual "fedora" topic but i'm sure i'll get some > good advice here.) > > i'm currently perusing someone else's collection of shell scripts, > and looking to add more, and want to clarify once and for all the > meaning of writing (and veri

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-24 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:15 AM, Gary Stainburn < gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk> wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2016 18:35:22 George N. White III wrote: > > Cygwin has become pretty robust, but there are some fundamental problems > > with file permissions/attributes. There is a technical documen

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-24 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 23 March 2016 18:35:22 George N. White III wrote: > Cygwin has become pretty robust, but there are some fundamental problems > with file permissions/attributes. There is a technical document that goes > into > the gory details, but the basic rule of thumb is that you are safe if you

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-23 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Gary Stainburn < gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk> wrote: > I've already tried two versions without much success. > > I did consider using the full cygwin install, but thought it over the top > for > what I wanted. I may give that another go before giving up and res

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/22/2016 05:27 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: I then downloaded OpenSSH for Windows using the installer found at http://www.mls-software.com/opensshd.html I recommend using the cygwin port directly, rather than a third party packaging. This looks like it walks through the setup properly: htt

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Gary Stainburn
I've already tried two versions without much success. I did consider using the full cygwin install, but thought it over the top for what I wanted. I may give that another go before giving up and resorting to SMB Unfortunately, I have to talk to a Windows box as these are PDF's that need to be

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi Fred, I have already tried that and it does work. My problem is that this way error checking and correction is a bit more clunky (checking that the share is live before trying the copy etc. Using Perl and Net::SCP is very straight forward from the sender end, and error checking is a doddle.

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Jakub Jelen
I would check https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH Windows guys did some work and the openssh should work on Windows in some way. I didn't try that yet, but it seems working for some people. If you see authentication failures, there might be something unseful in the logs. On 03/22/

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Roger Wells
On 03/22/2016 09:32 AM, Mark Haney wrote: > Yeah, I was kind of hoping that wouldn't be the case, but I do see your > dilemma. There are a couple of free Windows sshd programs available, > though I have no experience with them. This one appears to be pretty > good: http://mobassh.mobatek.net/down

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Mark Haney
Yeah, I was kind of hoping that wouldn't be the case, but I do see your dilemma. There are a couple of free Windows sshd programs available, though I have no experience with them. This one appears to be pretty good: http://mobassh.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html. Of course, you can always

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread fred roller
What about a shared folder on the window and a smb mount point on the server? Fred Roller On Mar 22, 2016 9:25 AM, "Gary Stainburn" wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Thanks for this, but I need this to be headless and automated, which is why > not using passwords is so important. > > The only method I've go

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi Mark, Thanks for this, but I need this to be headless and automated, which is why not using passwords is so important. The only method I've got working so far is standard SMB shares but that solution isn't as clean as sftp (if I can get it working) On Tuesday 22 March 2016 12:48:37 Mark Han

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Mark Haney
I routinely copy files to/from Windows to my Linux boxes, and the best way I've found is either use Dolphin and smb:// or use samba client from the command line. Getting SSH/SCP/SFTP to work on Windows isn't trivial (at least it hasn't been) so I just skip that effort altogether. Another method I

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/19/2014 09:10 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:59:01AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was >> wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came >> up with rdiff-backup. Would you

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/19/2014 11:16 AM, Steven Stern wrote: I'm using rdiff-backup and it's remarkably easy to backup but when backing up HUGE files (like a VM image) it can take a long time, because the receiving side compares the two files and stores only the difference. This is good for disk space but bad fo

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/19/2014 07:59 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was > wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came > up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are > some more, but this one appears to ha

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Neal Becker
Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was > wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came > up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are > some more, but this one appears to have an rpm in the fedora

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 07:59 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was > wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came > up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are > some more, but this one ap

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread poma
On 19.06.2014 15:10, Fred Smith wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:59:01AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this?

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:59:01AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was > wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came > up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are > some more, but this

Re: Slightly OT

2014-03-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 15:45 +1100, Roger wrote: > Apologies for ubuntu request but has anyone ever managed to > successfully > install and use Angularjs and Slim or Laravel the PHP frameworks on > Ubuntu 13.04 or 13.10. You don't mention what feedback you got from asking on a Ubuntu list. poc

Re: Slightly OT

2014-03-10 Thread Roger
On 10/03/14 19:31, EGO.II-1 wrote: This is what I found when I Google-d it, don't know if you've touched on these sites or not. Since I'm not familiar with either of those (Angularjs / Laravel) I can't really tell you why you'd be having those issues. But hope this helps!... http://www.dev-me

Re: Slightly OT

2014-03-10 Thread EGO.II-1
This is what I found when I Google-d it, don't know if you've touched on these sites or not. Since I'm not familiar with either of those (Angularjs / Laravel) I can't really tell you why you'd be having those issues. But hope this helps!... http://www.dev-metal.com/install-laravel-4-ubuntu-12-

Re: slightly OT

2013-03-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/17/2013 09:07 PM, Roger wrote: Different topic, still sad. Has anyone found a way to stop Gnome 3 in Fedora 18 from shrinking and enlarging the desktop dependent on where the mouse may be at any point in time. It's affecting my vertigo. I don't wanna go to Mint, don't like Mint. Has any

Re: Slightly OT

2013-01-18 Thread Roger
So why doesn't yum find the rpm either on the web or after changing to /Downloads where I have the .rpm is located and handle the dependencies as it has done with all other installs to date. Bit stuck on this and would appreciate help please. Thanks in advance Roger have you tried "yum

Re: Slightly OT

2013-01-17 Thread Frank Murphy
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:07:55 +1100 Roger wrote: > > Have installed > libuv-0.9.4-0.1.gitdc559a5.fc19.x86_64.rpm - it requested this as a > dependency. > Have no idea how to get it to install execjs. > Neither yum nor gem will install it. > This is a problem, it not for Fedora 18, which is *fc

Re: Slightly OT

2013-01-17 Thread Jatin K
On Friday 18 January 2013 11:37 AM, Roger wrote: I have a fresh install of Fedora 18. Trying to get ruby on rails working. Have latest ruby, have rails and all the gems have bundle, etc and rvm everything as I have in Fedora 16. Issuing the terminal command rails s in the directory I get erro

Re: slightly OT - user-specific postscript config files?

2012-11-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 29Nov2012 13:51, Cameron Mura wrote: | Hi, problem (below) solved: blasted away my $HOME/.cups directory, | allowing things to default to /etc/cups/lpoptions, and all is back to | normal... When this happens to you again, try moving the .cups directory sideays, eg: cd mv .cups DOTcups-e

Re: slightly OT - user-specific postscript config files?

2012-11-29 Thread Cameron Mura
Hi, problem (below) solved: blasted away my $HOME/.cups directory, allowing things to default to /etc/cups/lpoptions, and all is back to normal... === Cameron Mura wrote (on 11/28/2012 09:39 PM): === Hello, apologies for this being slightly off-topic (I work in Fedora, so this list occurred

Re: Slightly OT: Red Hat vs Twin Peaks

2012-09-18 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/17/2012 08:16 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: Interesting story at Groklaw...just thought I would share: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120913073511444 -- Best, Christopher Svanefalk Interesting indeed! You don't usually see stories about the GPL in the news. It will be

Re: Slightly OT: Red Hat vs Twin Peaks

2012-09-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/17/2012 05:16 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: Interesting story at Groklaw...just thought I would share: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120913073511444 Yup! The legal principle is called "tu quoque" or "you too." You're not allowed to sue somebody for something when you'

Re: Happy Birthday (was Re: Slightly OT about urls)

2012-09-17 Thread Lailah
El sáb, 15-09-2012 a las 16:24 -0700, Joe Zeff escribió: > On 09/15/2012 04:01 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Well, what do you know - you were born on the same day as I was. > > Happy birthday. > > And to you! That makes three people I know who share my birthday. Happy Birthday to you a

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/15/2012 03:29 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/15/2012 12:11 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: This all sounds so confusing! But I think I've actally been to a site like that once! It was "based" out of Chinaand no matter WHAT link you clicked on, you'd go to a separate page that had NO way to

Re: Happy Birthday (was Re: Slightly OT about urls)

2012-09-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/15/2012 04:01 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Well, what do you know - you were born on the same day as I was. Happy birthday. And to you! That makes three people I know who share my birthday. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription option

Happy Birthday (was Re: Slightly OT about urls)

2012-09-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/15/2012 02:29 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > No, that probably doesn't answer your question, but I thought you might find it interesting. Besides, it's my birthday today so you have to humor me on things like this even if you don't want to. How old am

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/15/2012 12:11 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: This all sounds so confusing! But I think I've actally been to a site like that once! It was "based" out of Chinaand no matter WHAT link you clicked on, you'd go to a separate page that had NO way to hit the "Back" button on your browser!..

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/13/2012 08:27 AM, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 10:44 +1000, Roger wrote: In this particular case it would be handy if the url remained constant. All the viewer needs to know is the base url. I'm thinking that subdirectory displays could be irrelevant. Maybe I'm completely wrong here

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-13 Thread Roger
Try making every page have the same address, and you start breaking the ability of the browser to hit the back-page button, and go back to the prior page (or pages, for multiple presses), then go (correctly) forward again. I'm trying to advise you not to paint yourself into a corner. thank you

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-13 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 10:44 +1000, Roger wrote: > In this particular case it would be handy if the url remained > constant. All the viewer needs to know is the base url. I'm thinking > that subdirectory displays could be irrelevant. > Maybe I'm completely wrong here. I'm no expert in urls and na

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-12 Thread Roger
On 09/12/2012 11:37 PM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 09:34 +1000, Roger wrote: On the server we have a redirection in index.php so that calling url www.domain.org.au in browser displays www.domain.org.au/directory. Is there any way to get the url to not display the /directory, just the url?

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-12 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 09:34 +1000, Roger wrote: > On the server we have a redirection in index.php so that calling url > www.domain.org.au in browser displays www.domain.org.au/directory. > Is there any way to get the url to not display the /directory, just > the url? That's generally a bad idea,

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:34:49 +1000, Roger wrote: On the server we have a redirection in index.php so that calling url www.domain.org.au in browser displays www.domain.org.au/directory. Is there any way to get the url to not display the /directory, just the url? If you are talking about

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12Sep2012 09:34, Roger wrote: | On the server we have a redirection in index.php so that calling url | www.domain.org.au in browser displays www.domain.org.au/directory. | Is there any way to get the url to not display the /directory, just the url? I think you need to be less vague. A redirec

Re: [slightly OT] What happened to /media ??

2012-05-29 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 14:04 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Brian Millett said: > > Ok, so I didn't read about the removable media mount point being changed to > > > > /run/media//device > > > > Would have been nice to have that as a gotcha. > > It is in the release notes: > >

Re: Slightly OT

2012-05-14 Thread James Wilkinson
Tim wrote: > There are throttling options for proxy servers, like Squid, so you could > try browsing through it (when throttled) to see a slower network > response. But that's not really a true test, slow networks have latency > issues, too, not just slower throughput. You could have a look at ht

Re: Slightly OT

2012-05-14 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 05/13/2012 07:28 PM, Roger wrote: > I have been asked to test whether sites we are building with Drupal 7 > will load rapidly, and what the response time may be for each page when > accessed with a minimal or older style computer which is on dial up, You can use "trickle" and/or "wget" to pe

Re: Slightly OT

2012-05-13 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 09:28 +1000, Roger wrote: > I have been asked to test whether sites we are building with Drupal 7 > will load rapidly, and what the response time may be for each page > when accessed with a minimal or older style computer which is on dial > up, etc, possibly with less than op

Re: Slightly OT

2012-05-13 Thread Roger
On 05/14/2012 12:53 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Roger wrote: I need to test 6 web sites for use with slow internet connections, eg dial up,ISDN, GPRS wireless, etc Are there any Fedora 16 apps that would provide testing and reports please? What exactly are you testing _for_? Do you just mean ar

Re: Slightly OT

2012-05-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Roger wrote: I need to test 6 web sites for use with slow internet connections, eg dial up,ISDN, GPRS wireless, etc Are there any Fedora 16 apps that would provide testing and reports please? What exactly are you testing _for_? Do you just mean are they up, or are they compromised, or penetrati

Re: [slightly OT] rpm Vs deb [Was: Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?]

2010-02-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
jack craig wrote: > > On 02/16/2010 09:16 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > >> Yes, they are starting out the "same" but you should really Google or >> read through some recent (as of this month) posts by @nokia folk that > > i did! it was full of resentful/fearful n900 & n800 users fearing > orp

Re: [slightly OT] rpm Vs deb [Was: Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?]

2010-02-16 Thread inode0
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > inode0 wrote: >> But Fedora doesn't bicker about this. Red Hat doesn't mandate this. >> Fedora as a community makes the decision. So why are we discussing it >> at all? Having transparent governance and community decision making >> doe

Re: [slightly OT] rpm Vs deb [Was: Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?]

2010-02-16 Thread jack craig
HELL No! Trading one flakey vendor for a closed vendor is no plan. I am going to track down best practice for shoehorning fc11 to my netbook. FC is a known quantity (w/quality); one i have relied on with success for years. besides, they have these great user communities! ;) On 02/16/2010 09:27

Re: [slightly OT] rpm Vs deb [Was: Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?]

2010-02-16 Thread Michael Cronenworth
jack craig wrote: > i did! it was full of resentful/fearful n900& n800 users fearing > orphanages for their Nokia hw. > > talking heads can blabber all the marketing speak they want, but > its the end user/developer whose opinion matters to me... > > i am not putting my trust in Nokia. for that m

Re: [slightly OT] rpm Vs deb [Was: Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?]

2010-02-16 Thread jack craig
On 02/16/2010 09:16 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > Yes, they are starting out the "same" but you should really Google or > read through some recent (as of this month) posts by @nokia folk that i did! it was full of resentful/fearful n900 & n800 users fearing orphanages for their Nokia hw.

Re: [slightly OT] rpm Vs deb [Was: Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?]

2010-02-16 Thread Michael Cronenworth
inode0 wrote: > This is semantics. Merging and renaming two existing things makes > something new out of something that already exists. There wouldn't be > any problem if it weren't for yanking an existing community from > something they have been contributing to for years into something else > wit

Re: [slightly OT] rpm Vs deb [Was: Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?]

2010-02-16 Thread inode0
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > inode0 wrote: >> It if were brand new they could do whatever they pleased to create it. >> But it isn't brand new. And it isn't just two businesses who can tell >> their paid staff what to work on tomorrow. > > How long has MeeGo be ar

Re: [slightly OT] rpm Vs deb [Was: Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?]

2010-02-16 Thread Michael Cronenworth
inode0 wrote: > It if were brand new they could do whatever they pleased to create it. > But it isn't brand new. And it isn't just two businesses who can tell > their paid staff what to work on tomorrow. How long has MeeGo be around for? > Does Fedora bicker over > which shell it wants? Does Red

Re: [slightly OT] rpm Vs deb [Was: Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?]

2010-02-16 Thread inode0
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > inode0 wrote: >> If after developing for your favorite open source project for years >> the company "sponsoring" that project decided tomorrow that it was >> merging with another project and you would need to switch to a >> different pa

Re: [slightly OT] rpm Vs deb [Was: Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?]

2010-02-16 Thread Michael Cronenworth
inode0 wrote: > If after developing for your favorite open source project for years > the company "sponsoring" that project decided tomorrow that it was > merging with another project and you would need to switch to a > different packaging system I suspect your reaction would be different. Grown m

Re: [slightly OT] rpm Vs deb [Was: Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?]

2010-02-16 Thread inode0
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:08 AM, steve wrote: > Hi, > > On 02/16/2010 02:58 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >>>  (1) Curious about why you say Moblin is dead? I missed the announcement! >>> >>>  (2) I'm writing this on a EeePC 1000HA (1GB, 160GB - but I'm using less >>>  than 20G) running F12 very nicely. >>